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Maximize Domain Value By Selling To Established Companies With A Specific Need

By Enrico Schaefer

Matching domain names with established services makes great sense for forward thinking companies.  The sale of bookmarks.com also  reinforces the  reality that domainers are more likely to obtain Rick Schwartz level domain sales if they match their domains directly to established companies with specific domain needs. 

Elliot?s Blog » Blog Archive » Bookmarks.com - Smart Strategic Purchase

At today?s Snapnames Live Auction at Domainfest, Lonnie Borck was the winning bidder for Bookmarks.com, purchasing it for $310,000. This is a fantastic domain name, and it is a great purchase to incorporate with his netRocket.com website, a bookmark scheduling service.  Bookmarks.com is the category killer domain name for netRocket?s vertical, and it was a smart purchase. Not only will this help drive targeted traffic to netRocket, it is also a nice defensive purchase, as it prevents another upstart company from owning the category.

BTW:  Did anyone else notice the trademark issues between NetRocket's bookmark service and Google's page one number one return "netrocket", Mozcom's dial-up internet service? Mozcom has filed for a registered trademark with the USPTO and first use date of 04-11-2005.  Because of other prior uses of netrocket by Application Serial No(s) 75629654 and 75760079 (both since suspended), that application has been temporarily suspended.  Mozon's mark should come live again soon, which could create problems for NetRocket.com.  Thye may REALLY need bookmarks.com  if Mozcom comes after them  with a trademark threat letter. 

NetRocket.com at archive.org shows the domain was for sale in May, 2006, used as a "Build-A-Blog" site in April, 2007.  There is no archiving for he current site but it appears that NetRocket purhcsed NetRocket.com sometime in 2007 (probably for a lot of money) and then launched in December, 2007.  iSend may have been smart enough to to pay top dollar for a valuable domain, but not have been smart enough to get clearance from competent trademark counsel before branding and launching NetRocket.com.

Congrats to Elliot's Blog, voted number one domainer blog at DomainFest!

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Full post as published by AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Blog on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).